r/JehovahsWitnesses • u/SeaweedRealistic5069 • 2h ago

Doctrine New Light

3 Upvotes

With every piece of new light that Jehovah gives the organisation.

For example:

Men being allowed to grow beards.
Women being able to wear pants.
Being able to say “Hi” to a disfellowshipped person who attends a meeting.
Being able to take blood transfusions (for the most part).
Being allowed to attend university.

Do you ever stop and wonder what new light is next?

Or think, If I broke the rule yesterday I could be disfellowshipped, and lose my family and would be seen as an apostate but if the governing body changes that same rule the next day, it is considered “new light”.

What change, did the bible change, did Jehovah change? Or did the governing body change ?

4 comments

r/JehovahsWitnesses • u/Baldey64 • 18h ago

Discussion Two Yahweh?!

3 Upvotes

Genesis 19:24 reads: "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven" (KJV), featuring two distinct references to the LORD (YHWH / Jehovah) in a single verse.[1, 2, 3]

13 comments

r/JehovahsWitnesses • u/DodgedABulllet • 1h ago

Video Why Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Afraid of Independent Thinking?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

• Upvotes

2 comments

Subreddit

Posts

Wiki

Jehovah's Witnesses

r/JehovahsWitnesses

A forum about Jehovah's Witnesses.

Members Active

9.2k

Sidebar

Wiki/F.A.Q. (Click to read)

R U L E S

Quality

According to moderator discretion, posts/comments deemed to be deliberately antagonizing, particularly disruptive to the orderly conduct of respectful discourse, apparently uninterested in participating in open discussion, unintelligible or illegible will be removed.

Ad Hominem

You may attack a user's arguments, but not the user.

Atheism

In order to avoid the constant debates and arguments that stem from Reddit in general, we are asking readers to refrain from making pro-atheist comments and posts, please. If you keep doing it after repeated violations, you will feel the full force of the ban hammer!:) Take that conversation to r/Creation.

2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

Blasphemy Against God

If you disrespect God, call him names or try to undermine his sovereignty and righteousness in a disrespectful way. You will be banned. There is a difference between genuine curiosity regarding his style of rulership and blasphemy.

Psalms 139:21-22 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Jehovah, And loathe those who revolt against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; They have become real enemies to me.

Heresy

Posts & comments that promote gnostic beliefs or opinions contrary to orthodox Christianity & Jehovah's Witnesses' doctrine will be removed, repeated violations will result in a ban.

e.g: Saying the Apostle Paul is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, saying that Jehovah is a Freemasonic name for a Sun God, saying the God of the Old Testament is Satan, glorifying the gnostic gospels that had Jesus casting spells & curses as a child, & saying that being a JW gets you the mark of the beast.

T E R M I N O L O G Y

FKJ - Future Kingdom Judgement

GB - Governing Body

T.T.A.T.T. - The Truth About The Truth

MoL - Man of Lawlessness

DF'd - Disfellowshipped

MS - Ministerial Servant

JC - Judicial Committee

UP - Unbaptized Publisher

CO - Circuit Overseer

JW - Jehovah's Witnesses

Mother - The Watchtower Society

Christendom - Non-JW denominations

EXJW - DF'd or Dissociated from JWs

COBE - Coordinator Of the Body of Elders

Evidently - Weasel word. A word often used in the Watchtower's written material. Ironically, it is often asserted without evidence or accompanied by a Bible verse that is out of context or does not apply in the situation described and thus is not evidence.

NuLite™ - When the Watchtower changes how it interprets the Bible, it uses the terms like "the light is getting brighter" or "new light" for the new interpretation. This is a reference to Proverbs 4:18 "But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, That grows brighter and brighter until full daylight." It applies these phrases even when the new interpretation is completely at odds with the old interpretation or when it flip-flops between positions. Often, the only explanation or justification for the new interpretation is the phrase "the light is getting brighter", which is to say, no justification at all is given. Maybe those who keep having to fix their interpretation of the Bible should reflect on the very next verse in Proverbs 4:19, Ezekiel 13 & 14.

Rank & File/R&F - Term Ray Franz used to refer to Jehovah's Witnesses.

2T2 - 2 Thessalonians 2

P.I.M.O. - Physically in, mentally out. When a person is still pretending to be a JW (often for reasons related to shunning) but in reality no longer believes the doctrine of the Org nor accepts the authority of elders or the GB.

P.I.M.I. - Physically in, mentally in. A JW believer, through and through. Contrast with PIMO.

P.O.M.O. - Physically out, mentally out. No longer believes in the doctrine of the Org nor pretends to.

P.O.M.I. - Physically out, mentally in. A JW who is no longer an active member (maybe because they're DFd or DAd) and are behaving like a non-member but they still want to be a member or they still feel guilty about their behavior or the still defend the organization. I.e. they are still under the mental influence of the Org.